We did it! Together. Because of you, we met our final stretch goal on our way to a successful LightSail mission in 2016. Our spacecraft will fly on Falcon Heavy to a higher orbit where we will demonstrate true solar sailing.

This mission now belongs to all of us. Thank you.

Let's change the world!

P.S. We will begin the post-campaign surveys soon. Watch for that process to begin in the weeks ahead.

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Hi Bill Nye. I'm in hot water with the wife after donating a $1,000 and leaving her home alone with our five kids to see the launch.Think she's more jealous then mad LOL. Cant wait to meet you and watch the Falcon Heavy launch, Going to be one of the most amazing moments in my life. Thank you for this.

Carl Sagan would be proud of your efforts, Bill Nye, and it is like you are walking in his footsteps. He sat next to me in Bailey Hall at Cornell University once during a lecture and he was about as down to Earth as a person could get-who knew his head was always in the clouds!! (affectionately said)

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So happy I could contribute to this project. While I am no expert scientist or even a decent scientist, I love looking up information about planets and such, especially the infinite possibilities about exoplanets. I love coming across information such as the size and the period of time Jupiter's red spot has been active and thinking "I can't even imagine that here."
Thanks again, Bill Nye and all of the team making this possible.

@Ian - no sneaky revision. We actually worked-up a budget in consultation with our Program Manager, Doug Stetson, and put that out as the stretch goal. The addition we needed above $1 million is, actually, $240,000. We have some additional budgeting yet to do for some spacecraft hardware, but those numbers were "hard" enough yet to include. We will do some additional private fundraising to meet the final total needed. Some folks would have expected us to simply round-up to the $1.25 mark, but we chose to call it straight. Thanks for raising the question!